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KNOWLES, Robert (1883 – 1936)

KNOWLES, Robert (1883 – 1936)

1883 – 1936

2 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1924 CE

#5301.1

On a Herpetomonas found in the gut of the sandfly, Phlebotomus argentipes, fed on kala-azar patients.

Demonstration that L. donovani is capable of reproduction in Phlebotomus. With R. O. Smith.

1932 CE

#12586

A study of monkey-malaria, and its experimental transmission to man.

Das Gupta and his supervisor Robert Knowles first described Plasmodium knowlesi as a distinct species, and as a potential cause of human malaria in 1932 when they described the morphology of the parasite in macaque bl…